It is important to note the Mass Shooting Tracker defines a mass shooting as a shooting spree in which four or more people are shot. The folks at Guns Are Cool notes that this differs from the FBI definition in which an event only qualifies as a mass shooting if four or more people are killed.

“The most obscene incidents of gun violence usually do not make the mainstream news at all,” Guns Are Cool writes on the reddit page for the Mass Shooting Tracker. “Why? Because their definition is incorrect. The mainstream news meaning of “mass shooting” should more accurately be described as ;mass murder.'”

In June, following another mass shooting at a historical black church in Charleston, president Obama said in an interview with comedian Marc Maron that mass shootings are not the new normal in America.

“I don’t foresee any real action being taken [on gun control] until the American public feels a sufficient sense of urgency and they say to themselves this is not normal,” Obama said.

However, even if mass shootings aren’t normal, they appear to be a daily part of American life.